The role of drawing is fundamental to my work. These drawings of crows and animals are sometimes prefaces to paintings, and sometimes a relaxation from them. They are works in their own right.
They are witnesses to the changes in the landscape of Teeromoyle in South West Kerry – my mother’s place.
My mother died quite young but I was reared on her stories about her childhood in the mountains, so family and a sense of place haunts my work. My mother’s past is my past. Her parent’s house is long gone but the field where the house was remains unchanged and I have painted this field many times.
Painting the field sometimes makes me feel snug, warm and sheltered and other times exposed, vulnerable and turbulent. I remove layers of earth while adding layers of paint
This is my subject matter, not the meaning of my paintings
Solo Exhibitions – Painting/Drawing
– Greenlane Gallery Dingle Co Kerry, July 2020
– Seamus Ennis Art Centre Co. Dublin February 2020
-Goma Waterford October 2020
-Solomon Gallery Dublin July 2019
-Greenlane Gallery Dingle Co. Kerry November 2018
-Origin Gallery Dublin September 2018
– Origin Gallery Dublin May 2017
-United Arts Club Dublin, October 2017
– The Russell Gallery with Artist Brian Gallagher, The Burren, Co Clare September 2016
– Origin Gallery Dublin May 2015
– United Arts Club Dublin September 2014
– Draiocht Arts Centre Dublin May 2014
– Cill Rialaig Arts Centre Kerry May 2013
– Origin Gallery Dublin March 2012
– Dungarvan Arts Centre, Co Waterford February 2012
– United Arts Club Dublin April 2011
– Henry Gilmore Gallery Belfast November 2010
– Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin September 2010
– United Arts Club Dublin April 2009
– Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin April 2008
– Cill Rialaig Arts Centre April 2007
– Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin May 2005
– Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin September 2002
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions
The Solomon Gallery Dublin June 2021
Group Exhibitions – Painting/Drawing
– Solomon Gallery Dublin 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
– Blue Leaf Gallery 2001 – 2011
– United Arts Club 2001 – 2016
– The Moreton Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucerstershire UK 2015
– Selected Annual Exhibition Greenlane Gallery Dingle 2005 – 2019
– Selected Group Exhibition on White Tailed Eagle – Muckross Gallery 2008
– Group Summer Show Backstage Theatre Longford 2002
– Group Show Bank of Ireland Arts Centre 2002
– Oireachtas Annual Exhibition 2002 – Open Submission
– Eigse Carlow 2003 – Open Submission
Selected Annual Group Exhibitions – Sculpture/Painting
– Boyle Arts Festival 2017
– Invited Artist – Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin 2014
– Amsterdam Art Fair 2013
– Royal Ulster Academy of Art Open Submission 2005,2006,2007,2008, 2017,2018
– RHA Annual Group Exhibition 2020, (1987,1988,1989 and 1991 for sculpture)
– Royal Ulster Academy of Art Annual Exhibition 1993 (sculpture)
Public Commissions
– Sculpture – Defender’s Row Plaque – Dundalk
– Sculpture – Morrigan’s Ravens – Dundalk
Work Purchased by Public Bodies
– Night Hare -The Office of Public Works, 2012
– An Undulating Silence – The Office of Public Works, 2005
– Seguiría – The Office of Public Works, 2005
– Field – Enterprise Ireland, 2005
Residencies/Fellowships
– Fellowship at Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Co Mayo, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,
2021
-Cill Rialaig Art Centre, Co Kerry, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021
– Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011,
2019
– Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany September 2009
